"We don't really grasp the scale of the problem we're facing," Gates tells me in his office overlooking Lake Washington in Seattle. "The right goal is not to cut our carbon emissions in half. The right goal is zero."

Its quite astonishing that this individual has an opinion on climate change when his company contribute to a large part of polluting the world! quite funny to be honest.

People need to take responsibility for their actions and we need to stop evaluating this based on money, nature does not do it, they are driven by survivability!

Wake people, Capitalism SUCK! All the wrong people get to be heard.

Posted by: SOmeWhoReallyCares on 29 Oct 10

According to James Hansen, the right goal is net negative.

Posted by: Nick on 1 Nov 10

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